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CLEF
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Dirichlet-Smoothed Bigram Model for Retrieving Spontaneous Speech
We present two simple but effective smoothing techniqes for the standard language model (LM) approach to information retrieval [12]. First, we extend the unigram Dirichlet smoothi...
Matthew Lease, Eugene Charniak
ICSM
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A theoretical and empirical study of EFSM dependence
Dependence analysis underpins many activities in software maintenance such as comprehension and impact analysis. As a result, dependence has been studied widely for programming la...
Kelly Androutsopoulos, Nicolas Gold, Mark Harman, ...
ESE
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Prioritizing JUnit Test Cases: An Empirical Assessment and Cost-Benefits Analysis
Test case prioritization provides a way to run test cases with the highest priority earliest. Numerous empirical studies have shown that prioritization can improve a test suite�...
Hyunsook Do, Gregg Rothermel, Alex Kinneer
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 28 days ago
A study of the dirichlet priors for term frequency normalisation
In Information Retrieval (IR), the Dirichlet Priors have been applied to the smoothing technique of the language modeling approach. In this paper, we apply the Dirichlet Priors to...
Ben He, Iadh Ounis
ICALT
2005
IEEE
14 years 29 days ago
An Empirical Exploration of Using Wiki in an English as a Second Language Course
In this paper, we present an empirical study of using a new and cost-effective Web-based collaboration software, Wiki, in a freshman-level English as a second language (ESL) cours...
Hao-Chuan Wang, Chun-Hung Lu, Jun-Yi Yang, Hsin-We...